Nothing lightens up people’s moods more than a thought for food. So what is it that we are cooking at homes these days? True, the children are ordering food from outside whenever they can but we still have running kitchens, churning out hot food.

But is it the same food that our grandmothers used to cook or is it more of fusion food?

The cooking channels are multiplying by the dozens, confirming that there is appetite for different kinds of foods. In every house, the mothers, grandmothers and daughters-in-law are intently taking notes, adding to their own recipe books. A little deeper look and you realise how watching the chefs do wonders on screen and even writing the recipes down is its own reward. One never sees those recipes being put to actual test.

Food is all about nostalgia, about a recollection of the taste from before. This is how it exists in one’s imagination. But wait, why is it only women who are presumed to be doing the cooking or at least thinking of what to be cooked every day. It turns out there are men in our midst who are equally interested in cooking but with their own romanticised notions they are re-creating the taste of food their mothers made. And they all do it as a hobby, only because they like it, so only when they feel like it. The day to day grind stays a woman’s work.

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Like other things, food too has gone digital and the one-minute recipes on everyone’s social media feed are hard to miss. Cooking anything exotic at home is now only a YouTube click away.

Amid all this, there is scope for healthy eating and organic food comes in handy, even if a little expensive. If there is any place where you can go organic, it’s your own home. The more adventurous are trying out biryani with desi chicken since brown rice won’t be of much help.

The focus this week is on food not politics. Over to your taste buds!